... This chapter argues that traditional ways of thinking about and advocating for “individual rights” fail to adequately comprehend or remedy the harms facing trans populations. Rather than looking at transphobia as a form of top-down oppression by discriminators, the introduction argues...

... This chapter investigates the contemporary political, economic, and social conditions that are shaping emerging social movements, including trans resistance. It introduces the term “neoliberalism” to describe these conditions. It examines how social movements have conservatized in recent decades...

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... This chapter argues that law reform strategies have a place in trans resistance, since so much harm to trans people still occurs at the hands of legal and administrative systems, but that law reform should not be the central aim of trans politics. The chapter introduces a framework...

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... nor the category “woman” are limited to individuals alone. Some critics see FFS as capitulating to demands that trans- women reproduce normative femininity and that FFS patients’ value for individual recognition as women undoes the political potential of making space for gender difference by making...

... the heavily lauded civil rights “victories” emerging from courts and legislatures. The conclusion provides a view of what a trans politics whose demands—such as prison and border abolition, an end to poverty, and meaningful collective self-determination—far exceed what can be achieved through lawsuits...

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... technologies engender lessons for a political reorientation of trans activism that proceeds in a contingent and fluid relation to transgender rights. morphing Judith Butler queer performativity gender binary transgender rights ...

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